Jim Broadbent – Stream On Demand

Hiromasa Yonebayashi directs the animated fantasy based on the children's novel by British author Mary Stewart

‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ – a magical odyssey on Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Animation, Blu-ray, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies 04/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

A normal human schoolgirl receives magical powers from a flower that blooms once every seven year in this magical fantasy by Japanese animator and filmmaker Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

‘Hot Fuzz’ – British mystery meets Hollywood action on Peacock

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Mystery, Peacock, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 03/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

‘Shaun of the Dead’ creators Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg reunite with costar Nick Frost for another hilarious and loving genre send-up.

‘Topsy-Turvy’ – Gilbert and Sullivan reborn on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, art and artists, based on a true story, biographical, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, Max, movies about theater, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mike Leigh’s drama tackles the creative partnership between the reigning kings of light operetta at a turning point in their career.

Anna Popplewell, William Moseley, and Georgie Henley in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."

‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ on Disney+

!Featured, Academy Award, adventure, BAFTA winner, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, Kid Stuff, Streaming Movies, SVOD 06/21/2022 Sean Axmaker

Disney gave the beloved C.S. Lewis adventure fantasy about a quartet of English children in a land of magic the epic treatment in the first film in an lavish adventure fantasy.

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, and others star in the film by Lana and Lilly (formerly Andy) Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

‘Cloud Atlas’ – storytelling across centuries on Netflix and HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, historical, literary adaptation, Max, Netflix, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/16/2021 Sean Axmaker

Lana and Lilly Wachowski collaborate with Tom Tykwer on this sprawling film that jumps between six distinctive stories in six different eras.

‘Enchanted April’ – an Italian escape

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/19/2021 Sean Axmaker

Four women break out of their confined lives and roles when they rent a Italian villa in this romantic drama of reawakening. Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, and Joan Plowright costar with the beautiful Mediterranean landscape.

Ben Whishaw meets a ‘London Spy’

!Featured, British TV, DVD, Limited Series, Netflix, spies and espionage 03/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

There is indeed a spy in London Spy (2015) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with numbers but awkward with people. He’s an investment banker who […]

Charlie Hunnam stars in the 2002 'Nicholas Nickleby' from director Douglas McGrath

Blu-ray: ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ on Twilight Time

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, historical, Twilight Time 01/15/2017 Sean Axmaker

Nicholas Nickleby (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) (2002) – You can’t fault Douglas McGrath for his ambition. Determined to bring Charles Dickens’ 900 page semi-autobiographical novel to the screen, he condenses, chops, and briskly skips through what’s left of a dense pattern of improbably colorful characters, and still winds up with a Dickens of a tale. The […]